Help please. We are due to go away tomorrow, the shower tap is leaking and can't switch it off fully. I think it is a microswitch does anyone know how to remove it, thanks
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Thanks, I need to take it apart and don't know how.If it is dripping, it won't be the microswitch. More likely an internal seal in the cartridge inside the tap or a bit of grit stopping it shutting properly
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Thanks for your very helpful reply. This is a new to us van, at the shower head there is a shut off button which I didn't realise and I thought I had drained the water but obviously there was water still in the pipe and tap which is now leaking. We are going up to Broad Lane Leisure who have said they can have a look this afternoon. We are supposed to be off to Scotland tomorrow.I had the same problem on our Carthago a few years back, it was dripping after re-filling the tank. I had drained down and blown through the taps etc, but I didnt remove the shower hose, or let it sit in the shower tray, so water had settled in the shower mixer itself.
This was enough to cause the shower mixer to freeze, which pushed the Black plastic securing washer forward, allowing the cartridge to not seat properly at the rear, causing water to by pass the cartridge body.
If you follow Lennys instructions above, you can get into the innards of the tap mixer, remove the black plastic retaining washer and check the 3 blue silicon washers at the rear of the cartridge, and the cartridge body itself. I ordered a replacement cartridge from Reich UK for about ÂŁ11/12 at the time, but I needed a new Black plastic retaining washer also, as this is wafer thin, and has a tendency to become distorted or cross threaded (wish I could have found a brass one, but I went arround every plumbers merchant, and specialist tap retailer, and had no joy)
With much pulling out of hair being told the black plastic retaining washer was not available as a separate part, only the cartridge body, I managed to get Reich UK to strip down a showroom tap and send it to me in the post.
I put in the new cartridge, carefully aligned the new black plastic retaining washer, which took a few attempts to align, and much swearing, but I did it eventually, and tightened a quarter turn past finger tight....No More as it will strip on the metal threads.
NB: whilst trying to get the parts, I started to try and get behind the shower mixer body, stripping out everything, leaving just the corner moulding that the tap is fixed to. I removed every screw then found Carthago had used very strong double sided tape along both sides from floor to ceiling. Even with much patience and a hair dryer I didnt manage to get the moulding off, I was very scared of it cracking as the double sided tape was that strong. Its obvious the the shower mixer is installed before the van sides are placed on the van, making it difficult to remove, with a long list of replacement parts like corner mouldings maybe also.
I think the OP will be fine if you can get the shower mixer re-seated properly, and the black plastic washer re-installed to provide enough sealing pressure to seal the rear silicon washers.
Good Luck.
If anyone finds a brass cartridge washer the same size as The Reich crappy Black Plastic one please let me know.
LES
I feel for you, our Honeymoon arround Scotland was delayed by two weeks waiting for partsThanks for your very helpful reply. This is a new to us van, at the shower head there is a shut off button which I didn't realise and I thought I had drained the water but obviously there was water still in the pipe and tap which is now leaking. We are going up to Broad Lane Leisure who have said they can have a look this afternoon. We are supposed to be off to Scotland tomorrow.
When draining down open the tap and remove the shower head.Thanks for your very helpful reply. This is a new to us van, at the shower head there is a shut off button which I didn't realise and I thought I had drained the water but obviously there was water still in the pipe and tap which is now leaking. We are going up to Broad Lane Leisure who have said they can have a look this afternoon. We are supposed to be off to Scotland tomorrow.
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